{"id":1579,"date":"2016-09-05T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1579-love.html"},"modified":"2016-09-06T02:42:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T16:12:30","slug":"love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1579-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2190 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"913\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1407-_MG_2828-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSome moments are beyond words, beyond description.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn this moment the ocean&#8217;s murky gloom fell away as mother brought her newborn calf out of the deep water towards the light and the life-giving air above.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn this moment I forgot I was hanging in a vast ocean far away from my everyday life. All that mattered here and now were these two beautiful creatures.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe watched her guide baby to the surface, gently nudging this way and that way and then down into the deep water again.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not unusual to see a creature care for its young but the way she brought baby into our view, the way she caressed it just like a proud parent and then the way she took baby away to the safety of the deep water again, to me this was not instinct but pride and intellect and love.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis was one of those moments.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Love&#8217; 1\/250s f\/8 ISO320 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; Some moments are beyond words, beyond description. In this moment the ocean&#8217;s murky gloom fell away as mother brought her newborn calf out of the deep water towards the light and the life-giving air above. In this moment I forgot I was hanging in a vast ocean far away from my &#8230; <a title=\"Love\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1579-love.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Love\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}